As the Washington Post headline puts it:
Business Groups Tire of GOP Focus On Social Issues:
From Wall Street to Main Street, the small-government, pro-business mainstay of the Republican Party appears to be growing disaffected with a party it sees as focused on social issues at its expense.... Mark A. Bloomfield, whose business-backed American Council for Capital Formation pushes for lower taxes on savings, investment and inheritances, said the business community is no longer the GOP's base.
And neo-libertarian John Henke says
that the administration's catering to the religious right while
ignoring the "libertarian center" could cost it dearly, if true
small-government conservatives decide sit out the next election. He
writes:
maybe this'd be a good time for Republicans to notice that their constituency consists of more than evangelicals. They might even consider trying to actually appeal to that "libertarian center." Otherwise, '06 looks like it might be ugly for the GOP. (Hat tip: instapundit)
All of which might leave the middle up for grabs - if the
Democrats weren't blindly swerving to the left.
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